Heimweiler

Heimweiler is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirn -Land.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

Heimweiler located on the edge of the North Palatine hill country along the country road 182 Kirn- Meis home and on the county road 71, which connects the two districts cancer hamlets and Heimberg together. The district has an area of 9.07 km ², the average height of local location is 259 m above sea level.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Heimweiler Heimberg and cancer hamlet. It includes also the residential places Forestry House Cancer Weiler, Horbach Upper Mill and Lower Mill Horbach.

History

The local church Heimweiler was taken on June 7, 1969 by the merger of the two communities Heimberg and cancer hamlet.

Findings from an early Roman cremation grave in cancer hamlet and prehistoric grave mounds on the boundary of Heimberg point to an early settlement of the districts of both villages. As with most places of the district should include the creation of Heimberg and cancer hamlet during the period of "Unlocking the recent settlement area " be (7th -12th century) occurs. The place names are interpreted in different ways. In Heimberg the qualifying expression "home" matches the name forms " Heym ", " Helen ", " hen ", " cock ", " Haan " etc., and goes back to the OHG " hagan " (= " Hagen ") in the importance of forest ( Hag = forest ). Because the Frankish settlement development the Ortsnamensgebung but was closely related persons or family name, seems to be the interpretation of " Berg ( mountain clearing / Castle ) of Hano ( Hein, Hagen, Henn, Henry, etc.) " is possible for Heimberg. Even with cancer hamlet the determination word "cancer " (documented in 1375 " Krebeswilre " ) appears on a return to persons or nickname and could be interpreted as " Hofgut of the cancer " ( Grebe, Greber, cancer, etc.). In the Hessian room was the " Grebe " the village mayor or community leaders. In the region had the old name " Heimberger " or " Heymbürge " has the same meaning.

Documented both villages appear in 1375 as " Krebeswilre " and " Heymberch ". Both villages belonged to the late 18th century to the Official Naumburg ( seat castle Naumburg at Bear Creek ) in front of the County of Sponheim. Both settlements formed a special "Inge directional " in the " court Becherbach ". This medieval court and administrative district, which was identical to the parish Becherbach, stood in the High Middle Ages, probably initially raugräflicher administration, which went to the Earl of Sponheim -Kreuznach from the 14th century. After they died finally came Official Naumburg under kurpfälzisch - Baden administration to the Office 1776 completely fell to the Margrave of Baden.

On medieval "Inge straightening " of cancer hamlets and Heimberg had in the late Middle Ages, the lords of Heinz mining law Shares Tilmann by Heinz Berg 1375 sold to the Wild Count Otto von Kyrburg. Economically tended the inhabitants of Heimberg and cancer hamlet to Kirn, where for the feeding of the local market still in 1579 the so-called " customs oats " was paid to the Lords of Steinkallenfels.

A description of the Office Naumburg from 1785, according stood in cancer hamlet of 30 houses, in which a total of 32 families lived. The houses were " small and poor, although the wealthy place " was, according to the official description. Cancer hamlet was the Hauptweinort in the Official Naumburg, where annually up to 40 cartloads of wine (about 400 hl) were harvested. The most beautiful house said to have been the " Barth'sche house". Heimberg counted only 16 one-story houses with as many families. The majority of the population of two villages was Protestant - reformed.

1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied during the First Coalition War, in 1798 the territory of the French Direktorialregierung was reorganized according to the French model. The communities Heimberg and cancer hamlet of Mairie dog Bach were assigned in Canton Meis home, which belonged to the district of Birkenfeld in the Saar Territory.

There remained the two villages by the end of French rule (1814 ) and came first because of the decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna Resolutions 1815 and 1816 the Kingdom of Prussia to Hesse- Homburg. Under their management, the two communities were part of the " Oberschultheißerei Becherbach " in the upper office Meis home. The upper office Meis came home in 1866 to Prussia, the circle Meis home in Koblenz Region was formed in 1869 from the chief official in the Rhine Province. The Office Becherbach, which in 1932 was part of the circle Kreuznach, remained both communities by the year 1940. According to the OHR Heimberg and cancer hamlet came to office Kirn -Land, where they remained until 1969 as an independent local churches. After their merger to local church Heimweiler this is part of the municipality Kirn -Land.

Population Development

The development of the population of Heimweiler, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Heimweiler consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "On blue - golden geschachtem sign foot in black a silver water fountain on a silver pedestal ."

The geschachte field refers to the former belonging to the County of Sponheim front. Water fountain and pedestal symbolizing the rich water component of the community. The community Heimweiler supplies from their source area several communities in the neighborhood with water.

The cancer towns and hamlets Heimberg led until its dissolution on June 7, 1969 own coat of arms. The municipal council of the municipality newly formed Heimweiler decided on August 15, 1969 to continue the existing coat of arms of the municipality of cancer hamlet. The, presented by the graphic artist chest, Kirn Sulzbach design was adopted on 11 April 1966 by the council and approved by the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz on July 1, 1966. The approval for the continuation of the coat of arms was granted by the Ministry of Local Heimweiler on 3 October 1969.

Religions

The majority of the local population is Protestant. The evangelical church, whose church building was inaugurated in 1967, belongs to the Evangelical parish Becherbach. In 1996 also a bell tower was built, because the church had not previously have its own bell. The Catholic inhabitants belong to the Catholic parish Becherbach and are supervised by Kirn from.

Club Life

At the clubs in the municipality include the MGV founded in 1876 cancer Weiler- Heimberg, who received the title of " master choir " in the late 1980s, as well as the youth club was founded in 1976. In addition, the sports club TuS Heimweiler was founded in 1921, which today offers the sports of gymnastics, athletics, table tennis and hiking in four departments.

Economy and infrastructure

In the West, the highway runs 41 In Kirn is a station of the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken.